An adaptation and alteration of Shakespeare's King Lear by Nahum Tate

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Boston Public Library. Catalogue of the Barton Collection

Carl H. Pforzheimer Library

Bartlett, H. Mr. William Shakespeare

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Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy quarterbound in brown morocco and papier tourniquet. The armorial bookplate of the Barton Library is present on the front pastedown. A BPL pamphlet wrapper is bound-in at front with a blue slip of note paper that contains a bibliographical inscription, with binder's instructions, in the hand of T.P. Barton. This item is the first of three bound together in a single volume titled "Tate's Lear." This volume contains [1]: The history of King Lear acted at the Duke's Theatre / N. Tate [1681] -- [2]: The history of King Lear acted at the Queens Theatre / N. Tate [1702] -- [3]: The history of King Lear as it is performed at the Theatre Royal in Covent Garden / [George Colman] 1768

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